Cigar-box



y(No Model.)

W. A. STICKNEY.

GIGAR BOX.

No. 597,791. Patented Jan. 25, 1898.

UNITED STATES r ATnN'r `Brion.,

WILIJIAM A. STIOKNEY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

CIGAR-Bx.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 597,791, dated January 25, 1898. Application led December 14, 1896. Serial No. 6 15,641. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. STIGKNEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar- Boxes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

My invention has relation to improvements in cigar-boxes5 and it consists in the novel construction of box to be more fully set forth in the specification and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the box open. Fig. 2 is a middle ver- 4iical transverse section of the box closed. Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional detail of the locking device, and Fig. iis an enlarged sectional detail of the hinged side of the cover.

The object of the present invention is to construct a cigar-box Which, While it serves the purpose of display-box for the cigars, at the same time is adapted to insure the preservation of the flavor which the cigars possess when originally placed in the box.

The present box is essentially a glass or transparent one, provided With a cedar cover hinged thereto, the glass bottom being covered with an inner lining of cedar, it being understood that cedar has the capacity for preserving the flavor-'of and imparting flavor to the weed for an indefinite period, although it is Within the spirit of my invention to substitute for the cedar any equivalent material t preferably opaque) which is sufliciently porous to avoid a total exclusion of air from thel interior of the box, and yet, at the same time, of suflicient density to prevent a too sudden escape of the moisture which is originally coniin ed Within the box When the cigars are packed therein. To insure an absolute imparting of flavor to the cigars for a given time, I interpose between each layer of cigars a sheet of cedar veneer, this arrangement increasing the efciency of the box in the manner indicated above.

In detail the invention may be described as follows:

Referring to the drawings, l represents the body portion of a rectangular glass box, either square or oblon g in shape,.designed to receive my invention to substitute for such metallic hinges flexible strips of cloth or fabric serving the purpose of hinges.f In the present instance one leaf of each hinge 6 is secured by a fastener 7, passed through alining openlngs of the leaf and vertical Wall of the box, the other leaf being secured to the rear side 4 of the cover, the metallic portion constituting the depending ends an d sides of the cover being secured to the Wooden portion by driving at suitable points brads or nails S through the Wooden cover and through the flange or rim 9, overlapping the edges of the same, it being understood that what constitutes the metallic ends 3 and sides 4 and flange 9 is preferably a single piece of stamped metal.

Formed along the front Wall of the box (or the Wall opposite the hinge-line) and located medially along the wall and at a point intermediate the ledge and the upper edge of the Wall is a triangular depression 10, with the base of'which is adapted to engage and firmly lock the base of a corresponding inner lug 1i, formed or pressed from the adjacent metallic side l of the cover, the lug thus pressed leaving a corresponding depression 12 along the outer surface of said yielding side 4. Carried by the same side 4f along the lower edge thereof and directly below the depression 12 is a metallic ring 13, by which the cover can be seized and operated. The side 4., carry-ing the locking-lug, being yielding, the parts Will hug the adjacentV portions of the Wall of the glass box, to open which the operator simply draws upon the ring 13, as indicated by the arrow in Fig. 8, drawing the side out of engagement with the Wall, and when the parts are released the cover may be swung open.

It is of course Within the spirit of my invention to reverse the construction just set TOO forth, forming a lug on the box and a depression in the metallic side of the cover. i

The bottoni of the glass box is provided with a cedar lining 14:, and in the packing of the cigars I may interpose between each layer a sheet of Cedar veneer 15, thereby insuring the retention of and the imparting of av'or to the Weed for an in definite period, as already above referred to.

S0 far as the cedar cover is concerned it is apparent, of course, that the hinge might be altogether dispensed with and that the @over might be secured to the box in any other suitable manner.

The ,glass of which the body portion is coinposed is preferably transparent or translucent, but not necessarily so, and it is within the spirit of my invention to substitute any equivalent material for the glass, either trans parent or opaque,

Having described `my invention, what I claim is 1. In a ciganbox, a glass body portion, a,

Wooden lid or cover, depending metallic ends and sides carried by and/forming apart'of the lid, one of said sides being hinged to one of the vertical Walls ofu the box, a lug formed along lthe inner surface of the opposite de-y pending side of the cover, a corresponding depression formed along the adjacent Vertical'wall of the box at a point intermediate the upper edge of the Wall and theledge Ao aijried by itJ said de nes/sion l eing adapterltoA the metllieside of the cover, and a suitable 'fastening devices such as nails, one of the depending sides being hinged to one of the vertical Walls of the box, an inwardly-,pressed triangular ,lug formed along the depending side opposite-tbe hinge-line, a corresponding triangular depression formed along the adjacent Vertical Wall of the box between the ledge and the upper edge of the wall,` the base of the depression being adapted to engage with the base of` thelug, upon the closing of the lid, and a suitable ring carried by the side adjacent to the lug for grasping the cover2 substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM A. STIGKNEY.

Witnesses:

ALFRED A, MATHEY, EMIL STAREK. 

